Nottingham Law School

Role

John is a module leader and module on-line material developer for a number of modules on the NLS distance learning programmes. He also:

undertakes considerable research in the area of legal education, especially feedback on assessment, but extending to

structural issues in academic and professional education

co-author of a textbook on Tort Law and on-going work on online formative assessment

writes several journal articles in areas of tort related human rights and medico-legal case law developments

has an interest in regulation generally, and particularly regulatory crime

is editor of the title Carriage by Road and Rail in the Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents.

Career overview

John was formerly a solicitor in private practice as a partner and consultant. He was also formerly an academic review chair and academic auditor for QAA.

Research areas

John currently researches the role of the External Examiner in Legal Education in the United Kingdom. His recent projects include a review of continuing professional development in the solicitors' profession for the SRA, an NTU wide project on the electronic provision of feedback to students and other projects on feedback to students partly funded by the UKCLE.

External activity

John is a committee member (formerly Secretary and Chair) of the Association of Law Teachers and is also a JASB validation representative. He was formerly a member of the QAA Law Benchmarking Group and the drafting group for the PSRB Joint Statement of Qualifying Law Degrees.

Sponsors and collaborators

Solicitors Regulatory Authority

United Kingdom Centre for Legal Education

Hussein Fund for Excellence (Jordan)

Publications

1. Principal items relating to Learning and Teaching:

P1 A Survey of Law Teaching Harris and Bellerby with Leighton and Hodgson 1993, Sweet & Maxwell

P2 The Grand National Consolidated Law Examination: A handicap steeplechase for Trojan horses and hacks (Critique of a National Law Qualifying Exam) SPTL Reporter 1996

P3 The Comparative Dimension (or What do they know of England that only England know?) (Comparative Law in Education) [1995] 5 Web JCLI

This list does not include a number of short opinion or update items which have appeared regularly in a range of principally journalistic publications.

Press expertise

John has experience of working with both print and broadcast media. He can offer comment on European Union legal issues; legal education; the civil justice system; constitutional reform; freedom of speech / expression; and human rights.